Birds, Butterflies, Fungi and a rare Spider at Puttenhalli BioBlitz
BioBlitz is a short but intense session in which participants do a biological survey of a particular area and record all the living creatures in that space. Recently Puttenahalli Lake in Bangalore saw its first BioBlitz. Here’s how it went..
India’s Solar Plan: Still on Track
Solar Power or to be precise Solar PV continues to grow rapidly in India. Propelled by PM Narendra Modi’s rather audacious vision of installing 175 GW of renewable energy, of…
Malaria gets a bite in Mandla
For a disease that can be a scary epidemic, some endemic action that stays more stubborn than the vector, is, sometimes, the only answer. It is a good sign then…
Desilting water woes
Pandurang Devkar, a resident of Mavadi village, District Pune, reveals how they have been facing water scarcity since 2013. Even the water provided by the Govt. schemes was impure and…
Saving forests, the Indian way
When prince Ram — accompanied by Sita and Lakshman — was set for the 14 year old exile, his mother Kaushalya could not help but break into emotions. As she…
Celebrating the new set of ‘Earthians’
– Srinivas R “What can we say when elders throw garbage into the pond thus polluting it?” “What does our ancient texts prescribe on water conservation?” “Why has Wipro selected…
Mitticool: A clay fridge that cools through evaporation
In a country, where two things are most common, poverty and lack food, preservation of food is of utmost importance. But in rural hinterland, Indians can’t really afford a fridge,…
Green Activism: The world is changing while we sleep
— Pratima H You can’t exactly call them crusaders or activists. They don’t need that attention anyways. Like humor, good work too can be dissected like a frog, but then…
Modi’s dream of ‘solar powered India’ takes shape in Tripura
— Abhijit Deb At a time when India’s “Energy Literate Prime Minister” Narendra Modi plans to aggressively promote the use of solar power to light up the homes of 400…
From Assam: Hand-made organic tea new craze among small tea growers
— Abhijit Deb For Umeshwar Phukan, a small time tea grower from Sibsagar district of Assam, going organic was not an easy decision. After eight years of dedicated work he…
And after all that wait, the ‘C’ pill is here!
GOOD things come to those who wait. Wrong! Better things come to those who pay, pray and prey. This was a clandestine project of enormous scale and aspirations and only…
Earth Hour: Past the countdown
Pratima H FROM getting a chance to dance naked since it’s dark everywhere to chewing some serious cud about our planet, most of us were there and paradoxically ‘in the…
Corporate ivory towers surrendering to activism; for NOW!
Pratima H CAN you believe it is happening? Did you read the latest on ExxonMobil? Wow, the oil and energy Goliath could actually be giving a nod to fulfill a…
Toilets, Theatre, Terminals, Tears: And not a drop to think
Pratima H Being jolted with out-of-the-blue water-inspired interiors in the new incarnation of Mumbai International Terminal could be a new feeling for many travellers lately. Like passing around installations (courtesy…
Copper: Bronze worth the win or scrap
NOT the metal worth all the talk of course if one is thinking of precious biscuits, tempting bullion market yo-yo ride, equally irresistible wedding shopping or festival binge. But then…
SF bans Plastic Bottles. Can ever India?
In a landmark decision, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to bar the city from buying plastic water bottles and to ban distribution of plastic water bottles smaller…
Forest clearance or sweeping issues?
This month has barely started and news has trickled in many shades on pages of TOI, The Hindu, Economic Times and others narrating how environment clearances are flying fast for…
IT getting re-incarnated for agility and less wastage
The way we think, design and consume computing can change a lot in the next few years if Gartner has got it right. As the analyst firm predicts, by 2017,…